Community Investment and Partnership Lead in City of London

The role will be at the heart of our London and Hertford delivering Community Investment and partnership actively through commissioning and supporting activity that creates social impact. You will lead in the delivery and ongoing development of a Locality based Community Investment strategy, embedding our Thriving Communities, Customer Impact and Corporate Plan priorities across two localities. Reporting to the Community Investment and Partnership Manager this post will be embedded with our other customer facing teams and require excellent partnership skills, a focus on delivering social impact, ability to identify opportunities for fundraising and programme development and commitment to customer service with the confidence to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Creating, implementing and overseeing the delivery of a wide-ranging programme of interventions in localities.
• Ensuring that contracts and projects are managed effectively, including performance management that demonstrates our social impact.
• Ensuring the smooth and effective financial management of projects via contracts and grants, including adhering to procurement and financial regulations.
• Supporting the Partnerships and Funding team by writing bids that bring in external funding to deliver social impact in our communities.
• Working collaboratively with Community Investment colleagues to ensure the Thriving Communities vision is delivered in localities.
• Working effectively with our Grants Officer to support the grant programmes and work with awardees as required.
• Embedding a framework for social impact and outcomes recording.

Requirements / What you’ll need

• Ideally, you'll have significant experience and expertise in the Community Investment sector gained from working in a similar role.
• You'll need excellent partnership skills, a focus on delivering social impact, ability to identify opportunities for fundraising and programme development and commitment to customer service with the confidence to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.
• A proven track record of positive stakeholder engagement and relationship management, both internally and externally.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written, tailored to a range of audiences.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience of quality assurance of projects, including monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Confidence with budget management and financial systems.
• IT literate and able to use technology for effective project delivery.

Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In some recruitment situations the employer may limit interview numbers.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days).
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package.
• 3 additional Wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days.
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary.
• Enhanced maternity/adoption pay.
• Enhanced paternity pay - 6 weeks full pay (after 26 weeks' service).
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover.
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service.

Equal Opportunity: At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. If you would like the opportunity to make a real impact within our changing and growing organisation, we would love to hear from you!